Ticket issuing and recording machine.



No. 778.264; PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904. J. IE. OHMER.

TICKET ISSUING AND RECORDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED T11R19. 1904.

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J. F. OHMER. TICKET ISSUING AND RECORDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.19,1904.

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IN NT R WITNEEIEELEJ UNITED STATES Patented December 2'7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. OHMER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A SSIGNOR TO THE OHMER FARE REGISTER00., OF ROCHESTER, NEWV YORK.

TICKET ISSUING AND RECORDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,264, dated December27, 1904. Application filed February 19, 1904. Serial No.l94,33l.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. OHMER, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Issuing andRecording Hachines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a ticket or salesslip issuing machine, and comprises means for issuing and storing duplicate tickets or salesslipswith the value or amount of each ticket or sales-slip indicated thereoneither in perforated figures or embossed figures, the stored ticket orsales-slip being on a continuous roll, which is stored within themachine, and the issued ticket or sales-slip being severed from aseparate continuous roll after the same has been perforated or embossedand fed from the machine, also a total record of the tickets orsales-slips or other transactions performed by the machine is obtainedwithin the machine, all as will hereinafter be more fully described.

Preceding a detail description of the invention reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of themachine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of thefeeding-rollers. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view through themachine. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the consecutivecountermechanism,bell-sounding mechanism, and adjunctive devices. Fig. 7 is asectional View through the axis of the storage-roll. Fig.

8 is a detail view illustrating the certain mech anism operating inconnection with the perforating or embossing stamp.

In a detail description of the invention similar reference charactersindicate corresponding parts.

1 designates an oblong rectangular casing, the forward end of which hasa cover 2, which is hinged at 3 and is controlled by suitable lock andkey 4:. The upper end of this lid or cover is curved and forms one sideof a slot or opening 5, through which the issued tickets or sales-slips6 are fed, said issued tickets or slips being unwound from a continuousroll 6, which is mounted within the casing. There is also a record-strip7 below said strip of tickets or sales-slips 6, which is unwound from aroll 7 within the casing and is stored in a continuous roll 7 in theforward end of said casing.

The top of the casing 1 is inclosed by an open boX or frame consistingof a solid or imperforate bottom 8 and a similar end 9, and the top ofwhich has suitable openings below which is a space 12 for the entranceof a suitable punch in perforating or punching the tickets orsales-slips which lie above the openings 10 10 in said frame. At the endof said frame there are rollers 13, over which the strips of tickets orsales-slips 6 and 7 are carried. Above said frame and above the stripsof tickets or sales-slips 6 there is a further frame 14 with openingscorresponding to the openings in the top of said lower frame and which,together with the top of said lower frame, provide a guideway 15,through which said ticket or sales-slip strips pass. The forward end 16of said frame 14: is suitably curved to surround the top of feed-roller17. The said feed-roller lies above a larger feed-roller 18, throughwhich the strips are fed. The upper feed-roll 17 is driven from thelower feedroll by means of gears 17 and 18. The extreme forward edge 16of the uppermost frame forms the rearward inclosure of the slot 5,through which the issued tickets or sales-slips are fed, as beforestated. The spindle 19 of the lower feed-roll 18 has a crank-handle 20,by which it is turned, and which roller in turn rotates the smallerfeedroller 17 by friction to withdraw the paper from the rolls 6 and 7.The storage-roll 7" is rotated from the feed-roll 18 at the same ratioof speed through means of a spur-wheel 21 on spindle 19 of saidfeed-roll, which meshes with a transmission spur-wheel 22, that in turnmeshes with a similar-sized spur-wheel 23 on the shaft 23 of thestorage-roll.

The spindle 23 is detachable by having one of its ends mounted in arecess 51 in the inner side of the casing and the other end engaged by acone-shaped journal 52, which enters a corresponding recess in that endof the spindle and is normally pressed in engagement by meansof acoil-spring 53, which incloses the shaft of said cone 52.

Owingto the constantly-increasing diameter of the take-up or storageroll 7, it is obvious that the shaft 23 of said roll and the gearwheel23 thereof, which is driven from the feed-roll 18, cannot at all timesmove in unison. This contingency is provided for by so mounting theshaft 23' that when under tension due to the storage-strip thegear-wheel 23 and the cup 51 may move independently of the said shaft.It will be remembered that the end of the shaft is not rigidly mountedin the cup 51, but is held therein by the insertion of the spring 53.(See Fig. 7.)

The consecutive counters, which are of the usual construction, aremounted in a casing 24 on a side of the machine upon which the gearingis located, the said side being the uppermost side, as shown in Fig. 1.The spindle of said consecutive counters is connected with a lever 25,which in turn is connected with a spur-wheel 26 by means of a pin 27,projecting from the face of said spur-wheel and entering the oblong slot28 in the upper end of said lever. 1V heel 26 is driven from aspur-wheel 29, fixed to the spindle 19 of the feed-roll 18 and lying onthe inner side of the spur-wheel 21. Adjacent to said spur-wheel 29, onthe inner side thereof and on the same spindle, there is mounted aratchet-wheel 30, which is engaged by a pawl 31, that is pivoted to alever 32, said lever 32 being pivoted at 33 to a side of the casing andlying on the inner side of the spur-wheel 26. This lever 32 has asuitable curved end 3 1, which is engaged by a roll-stud 35, which ismounted on the head 36 of the embossing or perforating lever 37. Thelever 37 has its fulcrum at 38 at one end of the machine and is normallymaintained in the upper position, as shown in Fig. 4, by means of acoil-spring 39, which is inclosed within a fixed tube 40, which is fastupon one side of the upper frame 14:. Engaging with the upper end ofthis spring 39 is a pin 41, that is pivoted at L2 to the head 36, and itwill be seen that upon each depression of the lever 37 the spring 39will compress, and when pressure is removed from the head 36 theexpansion of said spring will elevate the lever to the position shown inFig. 4:. Mounted upon said head is the embossing or stamping wheel L3,with the numbers from 1 to O appearing in pinfigures 4 1, said pinsperforating the figures in the tickets or sales-slips which lie abovethe inking-pad 45, located in the forward corner of the frame below thestrips, so that when the head 36 is depressed the pins will perforatethe paper and form therein the figures and will color the perforationsin the paper according to the color of ink in the pad.

17 is a visible index-wheel lixed to the shaft upon which the pin-wheel43 is fixed and the figures on said index-wheel being correspondinglyarranged with the figures on the pinwheel so that the'figures on thepin-wheel are properly indexed from the wheel 17. There is also meansprovided for arresting the index movements of said wheels so they willbe stopped at suitable points, said means consisting of a spring-pressedpawl 18, which is pivoted upon the head 36 and engages with the teeth ofthe arresting-wheel 19, said arresting-wheel being fixed to the shaft50, upon which the perforating or pin wheel 43 and the index-wheel 4:7are fixed.

5 1 designates a bell having a hammer 55, which is engaged by the pin 27on each complete rotation of the wheel 26, and the bell is thus soundedconcurrently with each operation of issuing the slip or ticket from themachine and recording the same upon the consecutive counters.

It will be understood that the rolls of strips are provided with thenecessary printed forms. If they are in the nature of tickets to beissued for fares upon the street-cars or other public conveyances, thesaid tickets are provided with the necessary stations and other dataindicating the particular road or line for which said tickets areissued, or if the strips are intended to provide sales-slips they areaccordingly made to contain the proper printed matter.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The casinghaving beensupplied with the necessary rolls of strips 6 and 7, which are carriedforward through the guideway 15 andv through the feed-rollers 17 and 18,and the storagestrip given its initial connection with the storage-roll7", the proper ticket or slip is made to appear at the openings betweenthe guideway 15 and is punched by inserting a common form of punch inthe space 12, as shown in Fig. a, one jaw of said punch being above theupper frame 1 1 and the other jaw being within the space 12 below thetop of the lower frame. The number-perforating wheel 43 is turned tobring the proper pin-number M in position, this movement beingdetermined from the position of the index-wheel 47. The head of thelever is then depressed by the hand to perforate the ticket or slip withthe unit-figure. This depression of said lever causes the roll-stud 35to engage the curved end 34 of the lever 32, and said lever, through thepawl 31 and the ratchet-wheel 30, rotates the feedroll 18 a sufiicientextent to feed the strips forward to prepare the next place for the nextfigure or the tens-figure. Vhatever thenext figure maybe, itis indexedor moved in position by turning the indexwheel L7 to bring the properligure on the pin- ICO Wheel in position, and the lever is againdepressed in a similar manner. When the proper figures are thusperforated in the strips, the length of the ticket or sales-slip is fedby one complete rotation of the crank-handle 20, which feeds the ticketor sales-slip 6 to the proper position to be torn off andcorrespondingly feeds the storage-strip 7 upon the roll Two completerotations of the feed-roll 18 are necessary to complete each feedingoperation after the perforations, and it will be borne in mind that ineach perforating operation movement is imparted to said feed-rollthrough the lever 32, as hereinbefore referred to. In completing thefeeding operation the crank 20 is moved from the position it was carriedto by the last perforating operation, and from that position thecrank-handle is moved to complete the movement of the feedroll 18, ashereinbefore stated.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a machine of the classspecified, the combination with a casing having duplicate strips ofpaper mounted therein, upper and lower open frames mounted in the top ofsaid casing and providing a guideway through which said strips are fed,a wheel having pinfigures arranged around its periphery and placed abovesaid duplicate strips, an indexwheel having figures thereon arranged tocor respond in positions with the pin-figures, feeding-rollers by whichsaid strips are fed below said pin-wheel, a consecutive counter uponwhich is recorded the number of transactions, gearing interposed betweensaid counters and the primary feeding-roller by means of which theconsecutive counter is actuated upon each operation of thefeeding-rollers, a lever geared to the primary feeding-roller andactuated upon each depression of the pin-wheel to shift the strips uponeach operation of perforating a figure therein, substantially as setforth.

2. In a machine of the class specified, a casing constructed to containa number of rolls of strips each consistingof tickets or sales-slips, astorage-roll within said casing upon which aduplicate in a continuousstrip of each transaction is stored, a guideway through which the stripsare fed, an inking-pad located in said guideway, a perforating-wheelabove said inking-pad, an index-wheel attached to said perforating-wheeland forming an index for the movement of said perforating-wheel, a leverupon which said perforating and index Wheels are mounted,feeding-rollers, a consecutive counter upon which is recorded eachticket or sales-slip issued from said rolls, gearing interposed betweensaid consecutive counters, the storage-roll and the primary member ofthe feeding-rollers, and whereby each operation of feeding a ticket orslip from the machine correspondingly actuates the counting-wheels andthe storage-roll, a ratchet-lever geared to the primary feedii'lg-roll,and means upon the lever of the perforating-wheel for actuating saidratchet-lever upon each operation of perforating the tickets orsalesslips, and to shift the paper to a position for perforating thesame, substantially as set forth.

3. In a machine of the class specified, an operating-lever, aperforating-wheel on said lever, means for indexing saidperforatingwheel, means operated from said lever for intermittentlyactuating the feed-rollers to space the record-strips in positions toreceive each successive perforation, means for operating thefeed-rollers to feed said strips after each complete perforatingoperation, a consecutive counter to record the number of tickets orsales-slips perforated and issued, and means interposed between thefeed'rollers and said consecutive counter for actuating said counterduring the issuance of the tickets or salesslips from the machine.

4. In a machine of the class specified, a lever, a numberperforatingwheel and an indexwheel therefor mounted upon said lever, feedrollers tofeed strips of tickets or sales-slips below said perforating-wheel,means operated by said lever and acting upon said feed-rollers toslightly advance said strips after each number is perforated therein,means for completing the movement of the feed-rollers, a consecutivecounter, and means actuated by said lever whereby said counter isactuated to indi cate the number of tickets or sales-slips perforatedand issued from the machine.

5. In a machine of the class specified, feeding-rollers to feed stripsof tickets or salesslips, a lever, a number-perforating wheel topuncture numbers in said tickets or sales-slips, a lever supporting saidperforating-wheel, a consecutive counter to record each ticket orsales-slip issued, bell mechanism to signal each operation of issuingand recording, a common lever acting upon the consecutive counter andthe bell mechanism, and means interposed between said lever and saidfeeding-rollers whereby said lever is operated upon each operation ofthe feed-rollers.

In testimony whereof I aifiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. OHMEK.

WVitnesses:

R. J. iYloGAR'rY, O. M. :THEOBALD.

